Davyne Dial

Managing a conflict of interest

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See updated edits to return Wiki page to post anonymous edit done in January, and link to Google articles regarding defamation lawsuit results. Not sure if my position as the President of Friends of WPVM (the holder of the FCC license) constitutes a conflict of interest under Wikipedia terms. I did try to factually write what has transpired with the station.

I have reviewed the January postings by "Brandycharlynn " who appears to be a sockpuppet name for Abby Roach, was a former show host and Director at the station. Does Wikipedia have a strict rule on sock puppet edits?

Davyne Dial

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Thanks for your message on my talk page. The content you removed (which was referenced) meant that the content that you wanted kept about the defamation suit had no context, the person involved (you) was not even previously named or introduced. As the person involved, you should not directly edit the article, but if you think there are errors, that the content is not neutral, or that it does not accurately present what is in the sources cited, you are welcome to make suggestions here or on the article's talk page, and I or another editor can make any changes required. To your question about anonymity, no, editors on wikipedia are not required to reveal their identity, what they are required to do is provide references for the content added. Melcous (talk) 09:39, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

this paragraph which you added  has errors. 

"The station remained dormant between 2011- 2015 due to financial problems. In 2015 there was controversy surrounding the transfer of the license and the actions of Davyne Dial, the acting President. Accusations of illegally removing board members and illegal use of audio and video recording equipment within the studio. Past board members state that they were disallowed to attend board meetings and were met with police officers barring the door.[1][2] In February 2017 a defamation lawsuit was settled between Dial and a former Friends of WPVM Director.[3]"

Accusations of illegally removing Board members is untrue. The station was in danger of closing due to the license holder being in bad financial straits. Ordinarily a non-profit needs a couple of years to develop a trusted Board, but we had to act fast in order to avoid the station closing and so we set up an interim Board in September of 2014, in order to begin overseeing the station and paying the overhead to keep the doors open. In October 2014 we called for an official "organizational meeting" and at that meeting official Directors were voted in. Due to the inexperience of Justin Harrison, only four Directors were voted into office. linked here. Page 1 Page 2 This gave Friends of WPVM 4 official Directors (Board Members) In Feb Justin Harrison resigned, leaving three Directors. Resignation notice

Dial as Vice President set an agenda for a Board meeting to vote in another two members, and scheduled the meeting for mid March  As mentioned earlier a Patryk Battle of the MAIN Board was against the transfer and caused many issues of delay, controversy and dissension, showed up at that March meeting and made demands that we he was  not going to  allow a vote for new Directors. Clearly not within his right to do so. (audio of that meeting here) He was in clear conflict of interest, attempting to control additions to the Friends of WPVM Board, when he was against the transfer, was a Director of the MAIN Board, and was working actively to sabotage that license transfer.  The next meeting at the station did use an off duty police officer to prevent another disruption of a legally scheduled meeting. No one was locked out, the fact is  no one besides those invited to attend attempted to enter during the time of the meeting.  In May 2015 Director Hammond was legally removed for conspiring with this man and she went on to defame Ms. Dial and others involved in trying to revive the station from dormancy. 

The illegal video taping accusation is not true. The charges were dropped by Asheville Police Dept, after viewing subpoenaed Google mail evidence . As stated earlier, the station was mismanaged and neglected for several years, many people had access codes for the keypad to enter the station and we had no idea who was legitimately allowed into the station . We had theft of electronic and other equipment, evidence of heavy drinking in the facility (beer and liquor bottles spilling out of full trash cans) and viewing porn on the station computers. So we set up a iPhone with a security app and it gave us notice when anyone entered the lobby. We were also needing to stop people from drinking and smoking in the facility (against the building rules and FCC rules )...so we set a security camera was a deterrent to illegal behavior. No one has an expectation of privacy in a public lobby of the station. Asheville Police Department agreed that the camera was not illegal and did not seek prosecution.

Hammond went on to set up a rogue Facebook page pretending to be the official WPVM page, and led a series of defamatory posts on social media  which we took screenshots of as evidence. We also had access to nearly a year of emails between Hammond, Battle, Harrison and Lawing,  that exposed their plans to sabotage, infiltrate and generally cause drama  about the station and those trying their best to revive it from dormancy, due to a station computer being used by Harrison and the account left open for anyone on a station computer to freely view. 

Following the publication of the Mountain Xpress article and the Asheville Blog (linked below) a defamation lawsuit was filed against Hammond and in the suit settlement she admitted to spearheading a smear campaign to discredit and defame the name of Davyne Dial.

I hope this adequately addresses the false accusations you have allowed back into the wikipedia history article. Davyne Dial (talk) 13:29, 4 March 2017 (UTC) Davyne Dial